DARING OUTRAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume 2188, Issue XXVII, 17 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

DARING OUTRAGE.

A most daring outrage has just been committed in Paris. A Paris correspondent, of a London paper utate^ that fix months ago the Insurance Company La Fonciere had us ono of its agents a man named Louis Pillot, who, having been accused of forgery, took to flight. His whereabouts were unknown, but it appears that he was livinir in Hcclusion at Geneva. A few days ago thin inrni <\irmi to P<irisin a state of the utmost destitution, and Into one afternoon he called at the Banque d'Escompte. Meeting M. de Soubeyran on the stairoane, ho implored him to bofriend him if only for the sake of his wife and children, and the financier, touched by hi'n supplication*, turned back and took him, with him into the Directors' room, a large apartment, thu doors of which aro so thickly padded that no souud can bo heard from without. M. dv Soubeyran Ha*, down in his chair, bnt hardly had ho done ho when Pillot presented a revolver at him, and told him to Hivrn three drafts, each for £2000, threatening, if he should decline, to blow out his fM. de Souboyran's) brains on the spot. M. de Soubeyran jumped up and tried to wrest the revolver from his assailant* grasp; but the latter was too much for him. He forced him back into his ohair, and again pointing the weapon at him, compelled him to »ign the firee drafts. Pillot then walked backwards out of the room, still covering M. de Soubeyran with his revolver, and as t-oou a» he reaohed the door, dashed down the staircase and escaped. Unluckily for him, the Prefecture of Police, infuruned of the outrage by M. de Soubeyran' despatched a telegram to Geneva, and the next night ag the fellow arrived at tho station in that town, he was .summarily arrested and imprisoned, pending the fulfilment of the ncojsxary formalities for his extradition.